Luyện nghe bài hát A Song for Assata

(Common)
In the of God.
In the of the Ancestors.
In the Spirit of the Panthers.
In the Spirit of Shakur.
We make this movement towards
for all those who have been oppressed, and all in the struggle.
Yeah. yo, it-

There were lights and sirens, gunshots
Cover your as I describe a scene so violent
Seemed a bad dream, she laid in a blood puddle
Blood bubbled in her chest, cold air brushed against open
No room to rest, pain consumed each
Shot wit her hands up
questioned but shot before she answered
One Panther his life, the other ran for his
Scandalous the police as they kicked and beat her
Comprehension she was beyond, hold on
to life. She thought live with no arm
that's what it felt like, got to the hospital, eyes tight
They moved her room to room-she could tell by the
tight to the bed, through her skin it bit
Put guns to her head, every she got hit
"Who shot the trooper?" asked her
Put in her eyes, threatened to blast her
Her mind raced till things got
Opened her eyes, realized she's next to her friend who got killed
She got chills, they told that's where she would be next
Hurt mixed wit anger-survival was a
They lied and denied visits her lawyer
But she was buildin as tried to destroy her
If it wasn't for this nurse they woulda served her worse
I read this sister's story, knew it deserved a verse
I wonder what would happen if that woulda me?
All this so we could be free, so dig it, y'all.

(Cee-lo vocals)
I'm of Assata, yes.
to my Love, Assata, yes.
Your Power and is beautiful.
May God your Soul.

(Common)
It seemed the middle of the night when the law awakened her
cracklin, I see 'em when they takin her
Though she knew,
What the ride peaceful was the trees and the sky was blue
Arrived to Middlesex Prison about six morning
Uneasy as they pushed her to the second in
a cell, one cot, no window, hell.
Put in the of a prison wit all males
And the smell of misery, seatless and centipedes
exercise, (paint?,) and begin to read
Two years inna hole. Her soul grew
Away from people so she forgot how to speak
She discovered frredom is a sound
And a wall is a wall and can be down
peace in the Panthers she went on trial with
One of the brothers she had a with
The foulness they would feed her, hopin she's her seed
Held tight, the fight would live through this seed
In need of a doctor, from her stomach bleed
Out of this situation a was conceived
Separated from her, left to the Revolution
And lactated to attack
Cause and state was built for a Black fate
Her emptiness was filled with beatings and dates
They fabricated cases, one would stick
And said she robbed places didn't exist
In the midst of threats on her life and being with Aryan whites
Through halls of hate she carried the light
I wonder what would happen if that woulda me?
All of this shit so we be free.
Yeah, I often wonder what would if that woulda been me?
All of this shit so we be free, so dig it, people-

(Cee-Lo)
I'm of Assata, yeah.
to my Love, Assata, yeah.
Your and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God your Soul.
Oooh.

(Common)
Yo
From North Carolina her would bring
news she had had a dream
Her dreams always meant what they them to mean
What them real was the action in between
She dreamt that Assata was free in they old house in
The fact that they came true was the thing
Assata had been convicted of a murder she couldna
Medical evidence she couldna shot the gun
time for her to see the sun from the other side
Time for her to be by her mother's side
for this Beautiful Woman to become soft again
Time for her to breathe, and not be told how or
She untangled the chains and escaped the
How she broke out of I could never explain
And to this day they try to get to her
but she's with political asylum in Cuba.

(Cee-Lo vocals)
I'm of Assata, yeah.
to my Love, Assata, yeah.
We're molded the same mud, Assata.
We share the Blood, Assata, yeah.
Power and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God bless Soul.
Your and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God your Soul.
Oooh.

(Assata)
Freedom! You me about freedom. Askin me about freedom?
be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't
than about it is, cause I've never been free.
I can only my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.
Uhh, the way I see it, is-- is the right to grow, is the right to
blossom.
Freedom is -is the to be yourself, to be who you are,
to be who you be, to do what you wanna do. (fade out)